Franklin College Conference on Caribbean Literature and Culture Keynote

Speaker: Jean-Claude Fignolé, Novelist & Mayor of Les Abricots, Haiti

CALL FOR PAPERS

Possible panel topics:

Fignolé’s Fiction/Danticat’s Haiti/ The Caribbean Renaissance in New York/ Artistic Representation of Dominican and Haitian Women/ Junot Díaz: Language and Fiction/ Duvalier & Trujillo: Literary Representations of Dictatorship/Comparative Caribbean Literature / Conceptions of Haiti (Dominican Republic) in American Literature Caribbean/ Cinema & Films about the Caribbean/ Tomás Gutiérrez Alea & Pontecorvo/ Caribbean Performance: Theater, Dance & Music/ The Foreigner(European) in Haitian & Dominican Literature/ Travel and Return Travel Writing/ Caribbean Poetry/ Race & Gender: Haiti & the Dominican Republic/Ambiguities of Race, Class and Gender/ Literary Movements: Indigenism, Négritude, Spiralism and Magical Realism/ Chamoiseau & Contemporary Martinican Fiction/Haitian & Dominican Characters in Créolité Literature/Conflicting Nationalisms in Haiti and the Dominican Republic/Literary Depictions of the Haitian Revolution/Politics through Literature/U.S. Foreign Policy with respect to the Dominican Republic and Haiti/ Comparative Religious Beliefs: Haiti and the Dominican Republic/Caribbean Ethnography: Zora Neale Hurston, Maya Deren & Jacques Roumain/ Témoinages (Recounting Personal Experience)/ The Trauma of Repressed History/Contemporary Caribbean Art (in conjunction with “Il Museo delle Culture Extraeuropee” in Lugano) / Dominicans and Haitians in Switzerland

DEADLINE for Proposals: submit panel and/or presentation proposals
with a 15 line abstract (via Word attachment ) by September 30, 2008.

Thursday evening, April 2nd – Saturday, April 4, 2009

Location: Franklin College Switzerland Via Ponte Tresa 29, 6924 Sorengo (Lugano), Switzerland Tel: +41 91 985 22 60 Fax: +41 91 994 41 17

Fees for Registration: 115 Swiss Francs (50 sfr. for students), which include a Caribbean dinner prepared by Franklin College students and staff as well as live Cuban music)

For further information contact Prof. Robert H. McCormick, Jr. - Tel. +41.91.986.36.31.